Sad Puppies, Rabid Chauvinists: Will Raging White Guys Succeed in Hijacking Sci-Fi's Biggest Awards?

YES! Magazine ^ | August 14, 2015 | Miles Schneiderman

[Democratic-Republican]

"A lot of what Neil Degrasse Tyson does is science fiction."

[RikaStrom]

Larry Correia is an excellent author. I enjoy his work greatly, he also does blog posts where he lays it out there like he sees it and argues effectively when the left start doing their “feelings”. Very sharp.

[SunkenCiv]

Guess they’ve never heard of Heinlein.

[Perdogg]

ping

[Proud_texan]

Having tumbled on this a while back I bought a membership and participated this year. It wasn't entirely political; with your membership you get an ebook of virtually all the nominees so it turned out to be a pretty good deal. Far cheaper than to buy them retail.

Science fiction had really degraded into a cesspool of junk and discovering the sad and rapid puppies led me to a whole vein of writing that harkens back to the salad days of the genre.

And there is simply no way not to enjoy the whole Monster Hunter universe.

[tbw2]

Samuel R. Delany, black guy, comes to mind. As does Octavia Butler, a black woman.
Otherwise, I have trouble identifying one.

The irony of the Sad Puppies versus main slate is that one guy involved has a black wife and interracial daughter, but that doesn’t count toward a diversity quota. Likewise, an Asian author outed as a radically conservative person trolling liberals was booted, because an Asian in Asia isn’t really diverse if they aren’t liberal.

William Shetterly actually details this matter going back a decade, like how Elizabeth Moon, a female scifi author and war veteran, was uninvited as a speaker at a convention for saying we shouldn’t have a mosque by the World Trade Center when there aren’t churches in Saudi Arabia. Likewise he points out Cherokee authors ignored because they aren’t into grievances.

“How to Make a Social Justice Warrior” by William Shetterly - a Review
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Review-of-the-eBook-How-to-Make-a-Social-Justice-Warrior-by-William-Shetterly

[higgmeister]

http://www.amazon.com/Take-Back-Government-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0671721577

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks higgmeister.

[SunkenCiv]

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[nuke rocketeer]

Steven Barnes writes a lot with Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle, and writes a lot of action SF.

OTOH, Chip Delaney writes gay porn sf and is a proud member of NAMBLA. His stuff is pure CRAP.

[Tanniker Smith]

God. I'd forgotten about this. The brouhaha was only about the nominations, wasn't it.

Sucks to be a SJW science fiction writer these days, and still claim that you're open-minded and tolerant.